go overboard

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go overboard (third-person singular simple present goes overboard, present participle going overboard, simple past went overboard, past participle gone overboard)

  1. To fall out of a vessel.
    Attach the buoys so they don't go overboard.
  2. (intransitive, idiomatic) To go too far; to exceed reasonable bounds.
    Synonyms: get carried away, gild the lily, overegg, over-egg the pudding, overdo it, take (something) too far (v.t.)
    You can decorate the new room, but don't go overboard with surreal paintings.
    • 2023 January 11, Stephen Roberts, “Bradshaw's Britain: castles and cathedrals”, in RAIL, number 974, page 56:
      Of course, Bradshaw goes overboard on the cathedral [at Gloucester]: "a cross, 426 feet long; the oldest parts are the Norman crypt and nave, built in 1089."

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